Katie Kilroy‐marac
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Kilroy‐marac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilroy‐marac |
| SIGNATURE | MARAC K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Becoming with THINGS
Under what banner might we bring together non-absorbent surfaces, living mycelium furniture, an old Soviet radio, and a precious school photo from a time before war? Which frameworks might allow us to entertain connections between things and their (sometimes conspicuous) absence, between entwined houses and people, between materiality and our memories, hopes, and dreams? I'll begin by saying a few words about my own itineraries with things—with d…
Hoarding and the Substance of Kinship
While much has been written in popular media about the apparent antisociality of hoarders, many people with parents who exhibit hoarding tendencies describe intense (though not always positive or desirable) forms of kin relationality that grow in and around domestic hoards. Based on fieldwork with hoarding intervention specialists, interviews with people who identify as "Adult Children of Hoarders" (ACoHs), and a review of recent memoirs on the t…
An order of distinction (or, how to tell a collection from a hoard)
What is the difference between a collection and a hoard? This article draws upon an array of sources - from the DSM-V and current psychiatric research on hoarding, to recent media stories and artist Song Dong's Waste Not (2009), to the author's own participant observation with the Toronto Hoarding Coalition and the 21 ethnographic interviews she conducted with professional home organizers in the Greater Toronto Area between 2014 and 2015 - to exa…
A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America
Within the past decade, material disorder-especially that of the domestic variety-has come to stand alternately as evidence, symptom, and potential cause of mental disorder in the North American popular and psychiatric imagination. Sources ranging from the newly defined Hoarding Disorder diagnosis in the DSM-V, to popular media, to agents of the burgeoning clutter-management industry describe disorder in terms of an irrational attachment, closene…
Artifacts of order and disorder
Speaking with revenants: Haunting and the ethnographic enterprise
This article considers two revenants - a man and a ghost - who haunt the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Following Derrida's assertion that haunting is historical, I take seriously the concept of haunting and insist upon its relevance to anthropological inquiry. As a mode of storytelling that comes from a particular way of apprehending the world, I argue that anthropology might give credence to specters as social figures and assign eth…
Of Shifting Economies and Making Ends Meet: The Changing Role of the Accompagnant at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
Nostalgic for modernity: Reflecting on the early years of the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Fann Psychiatric Clinic was celebrated as a model institution of the new Senegalese state. Likewise, the clinic's director, a French military psychiatrist named Henri Collomb, was praised by President Senghor himself for pursuing a distinctly Senegalese style of modernity. Looking back upon that era, many Senegalese women and men who worked alongside Collomb express a sense of nostalgia for the clinic that is deepl…
A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America
Within the past decade, material disorder-especially that of the domestic variety-has come to stand alternately as evidence, symptom, and potential cause of mental disorder in the North American popular and psychiatric imagination. Sources ranging from the newly defined Hoarding Disorder diagnosis in the DSM-V, to popular media, to agents of the burgeoning clutter-management industry describe disorder in terms of an irrational attachment, closene…
Speaking with revenants: Haunting and the ethnographic enterprise
This article considers two revenants - a man and a ghost - who haunt the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Following Derrida's assertion that haunting is historical, I take seriously the concept of haunting and insist upon its relevance to anthropological inquiry. As a mode of storytelling that comes from a particular way of apprehending the world, I argue that anthropology might give credence to specters as social figures and assign eth…
Of Shifting Economies and Making Ends Meet: The Changing Role of the Accompagnant at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
Nostalgic for modernity: Reflecting on the early years of the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Fann Psychiatric Clinic was celebrated as a model institution of the new Senegalese state. Likewise, the clinic's director, a French military psychiatrist named Henri Collomb, was praised by President Senghor himself for pursuing a distinctly Senegalese style of modernity. Looking back upon that era, many Senegalese women and men who worked alongside Collomb express a sense of nostalgia for the clinic that is deepl…
An order of distinction (or, how to tell a collection from a hoard)
What is the difference between a collection and a hoard? This article draws upon an array of sources - from the DSM-V and current psychiatric research on hoarding, to recent media stories and artist Song Dong's Waste Not (2009), to the author's own participant observation with the Toronto Hoarding Coalition and the 21 ethnographic interviews she conducted with professional home organizers in the Greater Toronto Area between 2014 and 2015 - to exa…
Nostalgic for modernity: Reflecting on the early years of the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Fann Psychiatric Clinic was celebrated as a model institution of the new Senegalese state. Likewise, the clinic's director, a French military psychiatrist named Henri Collomb, was praised by President Senghor himself for pursuing a distinctly Senegalese style of modernity. Looking back upon that era, many Senegalese women and men who worked alongside Collomb express a sense of nostalgia for the clinic that is deepl…
Artifacts of order and disorder
Speaking with revenants: Haunting and the ethnographic enterprise
This article considers two revenants - a man and a ghost - who haunt the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal. Following Derrida's assertion that haunting is historical, I take seriously the concept of haunting and insist upon its relevance to anthropological inquiry. As a mode of storytelling that comes from a particular way of apprehending the world, I argue that anthropology might give credence to specters as social figures and assign eth…
Of Shifting Economies and Making Ends Meet: The Changing Role of the Accompagnant at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
A Magical Reorientation of the Modern: Professional Organizers and Thingly Care in Contemporary North America
Within the past decade, material disorder-especially that of the domestic variety-has come to stand alternately as evidence, symptom, and potential cause of mental disorder in the North American popular and psychiatric imagination. Sources ranging from the newly defined Hoarding Disorder diagnosis in the DSM-V, to popular media, to agents of the burgeoning clutter-management industry describe disorder in terms of an irrational attachment, closene…
An order of distinction (or, how to tell a collection from a hoard)
What is the difference between a collection and a hoard? This article draws upon an array of sources - from the DSM-V and current psychiatric research on hoarding, to recent media stories and artist Song Dong's Waste Not (2009), to the author's own participant observation with the Toronto Hoarding Coalition and the 21 ethnographic interviews she conducted with professional home organizers in the Greater Toronto Area between 2014 and 2015 - to exa…
Hoarding and the Substance of Kinship
While much has been written in popular media about the apparent antisociality of hoarders, many people with parents who exhibit hoarding tendencies describe intense (though not always positive or desirable) forms of kin relationality that grow in and around domestic hoards. Based on fieldwork with hoarding intervention specialists, interviews with people who identify as "Adult Children of Hoarders" (ACoHs), and a review of recent memoirs on the t…
Becoming with THINGS
Under what banner might we bring together non-absorbent surfaces, living mycelium furniture, an old Soviet radio, and a precious school photo from a time before war? Which frameworks might allow us to entertain connections between things and their (sometimes conspicuous) absence, between entwined houses and people, between materiality and our memories, hopes, and dreams? I'll begin by saying a few words about my own itineraries with things—with d…
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